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John B. Hurford '60Center for the Arts and Humanities

Reading Groups

Reading Groups gather regularly to study texts of mutual interest. Some groups are student-driven, some for faculty only, and others are a mix of students, staff, and faculty.

Propose a Reading Group

Proposals should include:

  • Description of the group's format
  • Possible participants
  • Tentative schedule
  • Projected budget (food, guests, books)
  • Explanation of the project's intellectual scope and relationship to Haverford's academic program

Contact James Weissinger (jweissin@haverford.edu) with any questions.

Apply

Deadline:  Rolling

Up to $750

Past Reading Groups

Current Reading Groups

Faculty Reading Group

Open to faculty and staff. Meets monthly on Mondays at 4:15 p.m., Stokes 102.

Rajeswari Mohan (rmohan@haverford.edu) The theme for 2015-16 is “Historical Novels.”The theme for 2015-16 is “Historical Novels.”

The theme for this year is 20th century British travel writing. All the books on this list are, roughly, in the tradition of Alexander Kinglake’s, Eothen; or Traces of travel brought home from the East. Bookish or bold and usually both, a lone traveler sets out with a backpack, wide eyes, and a light step. What comes back is a surprisingly distinct genre, rife with implications for our understanding of adventure, experience, empire, and autobiographical or cultural truth

List of Readings and Meeting Dates:

  • 9/26: Freya Stark, The Valleys of the Assassins (1934)
  • 10/24: Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana (1937)
  • 11/21: Eric Newby, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (1958)
  • 12/12: Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts (1977)
  • 1/23: Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia (1977)
  • 2/20: Patrick Leigh Fermor, Between the Woods and the Water (1986)
  • 3/13: Pico Iyer, Video Night in Kathmandu (1989)
  • 4/3: William Dalrymple, In Xanadu (1989)
  • 5/8: Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Broken Road (2013)
Poetry Reading Group (PRG)

Poetry reading group welcomes anyone (students, faculty, staff) who loves poetry, to bring a few copies of a poem (your own or someone else's) that you like/don't like/want to talk about.

Meets every Thursday, 9-10 p.m., Woodside Cottage.

Organizer: Aya Wertheimer (awertheime@haverford.edu)